Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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